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▪ I. swaggering, vbl. n.|ˈswægərɪŋ|
[f. swagger v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb swagger; the behaviour of a swaggerer; † quarrelling.
a1596Sir T. More (Malone Soc.) 865 You think..with your swaggering, you can bear't away. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 170 They keepe a vilde swaggering in coaches now a daies. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia vi. 223 Much swaggering wee had with them. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 72 There is..such swaggering and bouncing..that..I expected every minute it would come to downright kick and cuff between 'em. a1715Burnet Own Time iii. (1724) I. 501 (an. 1681) In their cups the old valour and the swaggerings of the Cavaliers seemed to be revived. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 177 Such is the kind of swaggering and rodomontade in which the ‘red men’ are apt to indulge in their vainglorious moments.
▪ II. ˈswaggering, ppl. a.
[f. swagger v. + -ing2.]
That swaggers.
1. Having a blustering or insolent air of superiority; characteristic of a swaggerer.
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 145 They were two well bumbasted swaggering fat bellies. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 76 Hang him, swaggering Rascall, let him not come hither. 1600Breton Pasquil's Fooles Cap lxxxiv, Hee that puts fifteene elles into a Ruffe And seauenteene yards into a swagg'ring slappe. 1612Beaum. & Fl. Cupid's Revenge ii. i, He..looks the swaggeringst, and has such glorious cloaths. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 38 The high tossing and swaggering preaching; either mountingly eloquent or profoundly learned. 1727Swift To Yng. Lady Wks. 1841 II. 303/1 A tribe of bold, swaggering, rattling ladies. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 426 They made a sort of swaggering declaration, something, I rather think, above legislative competence. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 105 Great swaggering inns. 1828Lytton Pelham III. xx, Thornton entered with his usual easy and swaggering air of effrontery. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxii, The individual whom he presumed to have been the speaker was coarse and swaggering. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 171 Our questioner will rejoin with a laugh, if he be one of the swaggering sort, That is too ridiculous [etc.].
2. Lurching, swaying.
1865A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 301 Through a yellow September moonlight, roll the swaggering wanes.
Hence ˈswaggeringly adv., in a swaggering manner, with a swagger.
1611Cotgr., Guinguois, de guinguois, huffingly, swaggeringly, aswash. 1685Bunyan Pharisee & Publican 111 The poor Pharisee..when so swaggeringly he, with his God I thank thee, came into the Temple to pray. 1855Chamb. Jrnl. III. 413 He..swaggeringly announced that one Gabriel Derjarvin was below. 1886R. Broughton Dr. Cupid xi, ‘I do not care what she says!’ replies Lily swaggeringly. |